ABSA Currie Cup Roadshow

2013 has been a great year with many opportunities for me to pursue my passion of connecting with audiences. Flying to Durban to MC the SA Rugby Legends - Absa Currie Cup activation at Glenwood High School was a definite highlight. Not only was there the excitement of returning to the City of my birth but also trepidation at the thought of whether I could effectively connect with the audience? Its been a long time since I was called upon to entertain a KZN audience and High School boys at that!! But by all accounts it went very well and as you can see in this video, we had a lot of fun...

In honour of a mountain...

Table Mountain is synonymous with Cape Town and seems to be a magnet for camera lenses because no matter what time of day it is, you always want to try and include "the mountain" in your picture!! I have taken many a photo with both camera phone and my Canon EOS 600D and it's not often that you get to share these with a large audience, so when the City of Cape Town posted a picture of Table Mountain overlooking the City, I thought "No, man! That's not nearly as cool as the one I took this afternoon from on board the Tigger yacht!" My picture was met with a better attempt (haha..) from the City and I saw my opportunity to share more... and so we went on, until someone branded it a "war" and gave it the hastag: #tablepicwar!? By the time that was announced though, I was sadly out of pics on my phone and didn't have time to hop on a computer!!

This eclectic "war" was documented by Cape Town Tourism who were @ in every picture, and thanks must go to Leilah van der Schyff for this fun little synopsis:

FLIP this was Cool!

My good friend Hilton Mundy of Shortfinal.tv is passionate about flying and approached me with a request to interview one of the six South African Pilots chosen to fly in the newly formed Red Bull Aerobatic Team of China which launched in Shenyang, China in August this year. The team, started by Chinese entrepreneur Zhao Wei, is flying four brand new XtremeAir XA42 aerobatic aircraft, painted in the Red Bull China colours. The team will be performing on the international air show circuit, starting in China, where they are currently based in Shenyang, which is the capital and largest city of Liaoning Province.

Hilton Mundy, will be filming a documentary, following the South African pilots as they form their team and fly these high performance aerobatic aircraft. A dedicated website has been built for the film, which includes full pilot bios and a sneak preview video of the launch of the team: Art of Formation

Happy Halloween Ya'll

The SABC building in Sea Point has been around since 1955 and thus has some very dark passages and secrets... I went to investigate some Paranormal Activity that has scared the beJesus out of some! I discovered an area known as "The Cemetry" in the middle of the building...I got lost in parts that even Security dont visit alone... THIS is part 1 of my 3 part investigation known as: THE GUY WITCH PROJECT!!!!!

This is why we fly

Sure the window seat is nice, but nothing can compare to the pilot's view."Sometimes, what a pilot sees in a day, people won't see in their lifetimes," says The Willy Balls who posted this breath-taking video taken from the cockpit of an airplane as it approached the Queenstown airport in New Zealand... I know my friend Rory will enjoy this over at Rory Alexander Photography as he has travelled extensively in New Zealand. If you want to see more "in flight" camera work then see my mate Hilton's handiwork on his site ShortFinal.TV